Daily Tombstone epitaph., 1887-04-07
IS THERE ANY HOPE ?s
NEW AND IMPORTANT OPINIONS Fss. OF PULMONARY EXPERTS
Can the Universal Consumption b.
 Successfully Treated2

Dr. Borgeon, leading French doctor, has new treatment for consumption.
 He gIves an enema of carbonic acid sulphurettcd hydrogen gases, the latter gas carrying the former into every part of the throat and lungs.
 This treatment, too, is directed at efects--the cause remains undisturbed.
 What this caus eis has been stated by perhaps the highest pulmonary authority in the world, !. e., the Brompton Hos. pital for Consumptives, in London, Eng.
 This malady every year carries off from one-seventh to one-tifth of the entire population of England!
 Dr. Payne, MD, MIR .C.P., London, is authority for this statement.
 The same or greater proportion oi deaths obtains in America.
 Dr. Payne also says that one-half the total number of deaths from all other causes have seeds of this disease in the system which only require some irritant to develop!
 Dr. Hermann Brehmer, an eminent German authority, says that consump- tion is caused by deficient nutrition of the lungs, by poor blood.
 These authorities cannot be disputed. The medical world recognizes them. The uric acid is the irritant in the blood that causes the development of the seeds which Dr. Brehmer says lie dormant in the blood
 Every particle of blood which passes through the lungs and heart, also goes through the kidneys, and if they are in the least deranged they cannot rid the blood of its killing poison. The thousand little hair-like sewer tubes of the kidneys very easily get blocked up and diseased 1; and when they do, they corrupt instead of purifying the blood. Kidney disease may exist, and yet no pain occur in that organ, because 1t is deficient in nerves of sensation.
 Dip your finger in acid every day and it soon testers and is destroyed. Send acid poisoned blood through the lungs every second, and they soon give way. The Brompton Hospital investigation showed that 52 per cent. of the victims of consumption were afflicted with de- ranged kidneys, which permitted the uric acid poison to remain in the blood and irritate the lungs. This uric acid is al- ways fighting every vital organ, and if there be any inherent weakness in the lungs it inevitably causes pneumonia, 
 The real cause of pulmonary troubles being so authoritatively shown to be faulty even though unsuspected action of the kidneys, explains why, in order to master the dreaded consumption, ono must rid the blood of the uric acid irri- tant which inhames and burns up the lung substance. For this purpose there is nothing equal to that great specific, Wa fa fNhia rapnaHv ha now the favor of medical men all over the world purely on it's merits. We have | no doubt that if the kidneys are kept in natural action, consumption and great many other diseases, caused by uric acid, | will not only be cured but will be pre- | vented.
 When the kidney is healthy, no albu- | men appears in the water, but albumen | is found in the water of more than half | of those who die of consumption This, then, is the condition of things | that always preceChs consum ption {: First, weakened kidneys; second, re- tained uric acid, poisoning the blood; 1; the lungs by the irritant acids passing cough in the morning; soon thick, yellow | uldttcl 10 oplG upJ iOllONCu by iOo5 oA flesh and strength, with dreadful night sweats; and when the patient goes to his school physician for help, he is put on cod-liver oil which his stomach, weak ened also by uric acid in the blood, can not digest. Because there is no pain present in the kidneys, the patient does not think they are affected, but the kid ney acid is doing it's work every minute, every hour, day and night, and by-and-by the disease of the lungs has advanced until pus is developed, then come hemor- rhages, and at last the glassy stare which denotes that the end is near! A post-mortem examination of such cases shows that the terrible uric acid has completely destroyed the substance of the lung.
 | It is impossible to cure lung disease when the blood is poisoned with uric acid.